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Emotional Intelligence for IT Professionals

By : Emília M. Ludovino
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Emotional Intelligence for IT Professionals

5 (1)
By: Emília M. Ludovino

Overview of this book

This book will help you discover your emotional quotient (EQ) through practices and techniques that are used by the most successful IT people in the world. It will make you familiar with the core skills of Emotional Intelligence, such as understanding the role that emotions play in life, especially in the workplace. You will learn to identify the factors that make your behavior consistent, not just to other employees, but to yourself. This includes recognizing, harnessing, predicting, fostering, valuing, soothing, increasing, decreasing, managing, shifting, influencing or turning around emotions and integrating accurate emotional information into decision-making, reasoning, problem solving, etc., because, emotions run business in a way that spreadsheets and logic cannot. When a deadline lurks, you’ll know the steps you need to take to keep calm and composed. You’ll find out how to meet the deadline, and not get bogged down by stress. We’ll explain these factors and techniques through real-life examples faced by IT employees and you’ll learn using the choices that they made. This book will give you a detailed analysis of the events and behavioral pattern of the employees during that time. This will help you improve your own EQ to the extent that you don’t just survive, but thrive in a competitive IT industry.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgment
About the Reviewer
www.Packtpub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface
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Bibliography

Self-awareness


Self-awareness is the ultimate human super-power that is directly connected with our survival mechanism as human beings. Without this super-power, the human species and you as an individual would not exist. Why? Because self-awareness (even if you are not aware of it) is the support mechanism that enables us to learn from our experiences. This process of self-reflection allows us to observe how we think, speak, and act. And that observation provides clues about where we can create gains in life by understanding our motives and emotional triggers, reviewing our beliefs, and changing our thoughts and our behaviors, to thrive.

What is self-awareness?

Self-awareness is the ability to, effectively, perceive and understand one's own emotions - as they happen.

Self-awareness is about understanding ourselves. It is about the realization that we are the source of our own success based on how we think and react to the emotional triggers in our daily lives. Knowing our tendencies, actions...